Showing posts with label Homophones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homophones. Show all posts
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19.7.14
Hilarious Homophones with Examples and Explanations - Animals
The English language can be confusing. Homophones are especially tricky. A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning. Even native speakers often have problems with homophones!
These homophones have an animal theme. How many of these homophones can you understand? Take a look below the illustration for a vocabulary lesson.
Homophones vocabulary:
Grizzly – a large North American brown bear.
Grisly – something that causes horror or disgust.
Guerrilla – a member of a small independent group, which typically fights against larger forces.
Gorilla – a great ape found in the forests of central Africa. It is the largest living primate.
Soul – a style of popular music, combining elements of gospel and rhythm and blues.
Sole – a European flatfish.
Flee – to run away.
Flea – a small wingless jumping insect.
Dear - used as an affectionate or friendly form of address.
Deer - a hoofed animal with bony antlers.
30.4.14
Hilarious Homophones with Examples and Explanations
Homophones vocabulary:
mussels – a small shellfish with a soft body inside a hard black or green shell, often cooked and eaten as food;
night – the period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness;
knight – in the past, a European soldier who wore a suit of armour and rode a horse.
current – happening or existing now;
currant – a small round fruit that may be red, black, or white;
bald – with little or no hair on your head
bawled – to cry loudly
hare – an animal similar to a rabbit
11.4.14
Hilarious Homophones with Examples and Explanations
Homophones vocabulary:
bore - a dull, repetitious, or uninteresting person, activity, or state;
boar - (also wild boar) a wild pig from which domestic pigs are descended;
swot – a person who studies very hard/ swot up - study intensively, as before an exam;
SWAT - (“Special Weapons And Tactics”) is a name for law enforcement units which use military-style light weapons and specialized tactics in high-risk operations
tiers - series of rows or levels placed one above the other;
tune – a song or a melody;
toon – cartoon
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